Astronotus Swainson, 1839
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- GENUS
- Published in
- Swainson, William. 1839. The natural history and classification of fishes, amphibians, & reptiles, or monocardian animals. Longman’s, London. Vol. 2: i-vi, 1-448.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Cichlidae
- genus
- Astronotus
Name
- Synonyms
- Acara Heckel, 1840
- Homonyms
- Astronotus Swainson, 1839
- Common names
- Oscars in English
- oscars in English
- oscars in English
- oskarit in Finnish
- vrubozubec in Czech
- Астронот in Ukrainian
- Астронотусы in Russian
- 圖麗魚屬 in Chinese
- 地圖魚屬 in Chinese
Bibliographic References
- Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2003: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (online version), 2012 version.
- Eschmeyer, William N., 1990: null. Genera of Recent Fishes. iii + 697.
- Eschmeyer, William N., ed., 1998: Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3. 2905.
- FishBase
- Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026.
- Maldonado-Ocampo, J. A., R. P. Vari y J. S. Usma. (2008). Checklist of the freshwater fishes of Colombia. Biota Colombiana 9 (2): 143-237.
- N. H. Fishes etc., 2, 173
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
- Nelson, Joseph S., 1994: null. Fishes of the World, Third Edition. xvii + 600.
- SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998
- SN2000/Eschmeyer, 1998
- Shiino, Sueo M., 1976: List of Common Names of Fishes of the World, Those Prevailing among English-speaking Nations. Science Report of Shima Marineland, no. 4. 262.
- Svensson (2012) Nordisk fisklista enligt Catalog of Fishes 2011-12-30.xslx. Excel-fil med mejl till Johan Liljeblad 2012-02-23.
- WoRMS (Mar 2013)
- WoRMS (Mar 2013)